Science: Indium

Details of the latest developments are under lock & key, but World War
II has been the making of indium: Indium is a once-rare metal that even
in very small quantities makes soft metals hard, dull ones bright, and
does many an odd job in stretching the supply of critical materials. It
is silver white, malleable, ductile, soft, more than twice as heavy as
iron, lighter than lead.

Although it was discovered in 1863, indium was strictly a laboratory
curiosity until Dr. William S. Murray, now of Indium Corporation of
America, went to work...